Arafat may refer to:

People

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

(1929–2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) *

Fathi Arafat Fathi Arafat ( ar, فتحي عرفات; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004), born in Cairo, was a Palestinian people, Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine a ...

(1933–2004), Palestinian physician *

Moussa Arafat Moussa Arafat al-Qudwa (; irth date unknownin Jaffa – September 7, 2005 in Gaza City) was a cousin of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He was one of the founders of Fatah and a leading official in the Fatah Revolutionary Council. Career Mouss ...

(c. 1940–2005), cousin of Yasser Arafat *

Raed Arafat Raed Arafat ( ar, رائد عرفات; , first name also spelled Rayed; born May 24, 1964) is a Syrian-born Romanian intensive care physician of Palestinian origin, specialised in anesthesiology. He founded the Mobile Emergency Service for Resus ...

(born 1964), Romanian physician * Suha Arafat (born 1963), widow of Yasser Arafat * Yasir Arafat (disambiguation), several people *

DJ Arafat Ange Didier Houon (26 January 1986 – 12 August 2019), known professionally as DJ Arafat, Arafat Muana and various other stage names, was an Ivorian DJ and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre. "Jonathan", "202", "Dosabado", "Kp ...

(1986–2019), an Ivorian DJ and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre

Places

Yasser Arafat International Airport Yasser Arafat International Airport ( ar, مطار ياسر عرفات الدولي ''Maṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli'') , formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, is located in the Gaza Strip, between Rafah and ...

* Arafat, Makkah, a plain about 20 km Southeast of Mecca *

Mount Arafat Mount Arafat ( ar, جَبَل عَرَفَات, translit=Jabal ʿArafāt), and by its other Arabic name, (), is a granodiorite hill about southeast of Mecca, in the province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. The mountain is approximately ...

, visited as part of the ''Hajj'' * Arafat, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran *

Arafat, Mauritania Arafat is a suburb of Nouakchott Nouakchott (; ; ar, نواكشوط; ber, label= Berber, italic=yes, Nwakcoṭ, originally derived from ber, label= Berber, italic=yes, Nawākšūṭ, "place of the winds") page 273. is the capital and largest ...

Arafat, Çınar Arafat is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çınar, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. Its population is 280 (2022). References Neighbourhoods in Çınar District {{Çınar-geo-stub ...

Other uses

* ''Arafat'' (journal), a 1946–47 Pakistani periodical covering Islamic law *

Day of Arafa The Day of Arafah ( ar, يوم عرفة, Yawm 'Arafah) is an Islamic holiday that falls on the 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah of the lunar Islamic Calendar. It is the second day of both the Hajj pilgrimage and the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. A ...

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